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MAX AA. KEILIG, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 72,862, dated .December 31, 1867.

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TAO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it known that I, MAX A. KEILIG, of Boston, in the county of Sulfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dress-Hooks and do hereby declare the same to bc fully described in the following specification, and represented in the'aecoinpanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, and

Figure 2 a side elevation of one of my said hooks.

Figure 3 exhibits it preparatory to the hooi: and tongue being bent into the position shown in g. 2.

The said heel: is intended for use with aA common eye made of wire, and formed as represented in fig. 4. It is to talle the place of .the wire hook generally used with such an eye. The improved hook is to be struck by means of dies from sheet metal, and in the form as shown in iig. 3; that is, it has two tongues, a e, projecting in opposite directions from a portion, l, through which two holes, d d, are stamped. After being so made, its parts a c are to be bent in the forms and with respect to each other, as represented -in igs..1 and 2, in which it will be seen that the tongue c i-s extended a short distance underneath the hook a'. The portion a is also to he bent, as shown at e, in order that the end of the tongue a may abut against or be protected by a shoulder, and the two lower surfaces of the parts a. c be brought into one plane, or thereabouts, as shown iniig. 2. The purpose ofthe tongue c is to prevent the eye from becoming accidentally detached from the hook a, the shoulder or bend c serving also to prevent the eye from getting between the bool; and the tongue. The holes el d enable the plate-hook to be sewed to a dress or article. i

My improved manufacture of hook will be found particularlyuseful for gloves and various articles of dress.

Iam aware thatwhat is termed a snap-hook has beon'made with a spring-tongue to its hook; therefore I do not claim such. i i

I am also aware of vthe dress-hoek represented` in-igs. 22, 23, and 24 of the drawings of Letters Patent, dated February 18, 1840, and granted to William Church; consequently I make no claim to such, my invention being an improvement with reference to it. v

What, therefore, I cl/airn in the dress-hook,composed of the middle and punctured portion I) and the two tongues a e, arranged as described, and having such tongues hook-ed and lapped on one another as specified, is

The formation of the hook-tongue a wit-h the shoulder-bend e, as and for the purpose set forth.

MAX A. KEILIG.

lVitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, SAMUELN. PIPER.- 

